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Old 31-05-2013, 22:42
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I had a good night's sleep, but it was in the armchair and I left the lamps on again That last cider in the pub was fatal
Right! Cider or not, get out of that chair and put those lamps out and :-

Goodnight, sleep tight,
Don't let the mouses bite.
If they bite, squeeze them tight
And you'll give them
An awful fright.


I think that's how it went.
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Old 01-06-2013, 17:28
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Goodnight, sleep tight,
Don't let the mouses bite.
I love the plural term mouses Biz My cousin does a similar thing, she always says sheeps I've just popped in to explain the lack of new material from me. I'm deep into the Avebury suite and I'm 'writing furiously' to borrow Morrissey's phrase. The book won't have as many poems as The Designer, but beautiful colour photographs will compensate for that. The centre-piece of the whole project is an epic about the destruction of Avebury. Although this was carried out over centuries, as an event in British history I place it in the same league as the Reformation, the Battle of Waterloo and the Blitz. It's been a rare pleasure writing on one topic and a topic so completely fascinating (for me anyway). Because of the time and research it's taking I'm currently unable to complete the other new poetry I have ideas for. So from tomorrow I'll be posting more oldies, some of which may seem new - I've forgotten many of the 900 in the file myself
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Old 01-06-2013, 22:20
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I've just popped in to explain the lack of new material from me. I'm deep into the Avebury suite and I'm 'writing furiously' to borrow Morrissey's phrase. The book won't have as many poems as The Designer, but beautiful colour photographs will compensate for that. The centre-piece of the whole project is an epic about the destruction of Avebury. So from tomorrow I'll be posting more oldies, some of which may seem new - I've forgotten many of the 900 in the file myself
I'm sure I'm not the only one who is looking forward to the new volume.

Wow! 900 is quite a catalogue - we can just treat them all as new. After all poetry is meant to be read again and again.
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Old 01-06-2013, 23:04
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I'm sure I'm not the only one who is looking forward to the new volume.
Thank you Biz You're right about poetry, I tend to re-read it a lot myself too, the same way I listen to certain albums over and again.
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Old 02-06-2013, 02:48
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Flying

If I had but the power
To fly upon the wing,
I'd choose to glide each hour
Away from everything.

Above a lonely ocean
I'd smoothly soar and rise
Or plummet in slow motion
Beneath a bridge of sighs.

I’d float over a spire,
Gaze down on distant grass,
Then circle even higher
Where clouds of silence pass.

Allowing flight to show me
What only birds can know,
With all the world below me
My joy would overflow.


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Old 02-06-2013, 06:35
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Wonderful stuff Musty.

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Old 02-06-2013, 11:13
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Yes, very memorable that one Musty. I suppose that's why people use gliders and do hang gliding, although it's much more limited than the kind you mean.

'Morning Troy.
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Old 02-06-2013, 16:23
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Robin The Rich

It was a time of derring-do if Robin Hood you do
What Robin Hood will do. Robbing rich, give to
The poor. Bring down that Sheriff that’s for sure.
Sherwood Forest was his manor the hood of them
Days where he would plan the latest heist beyond
The Law but in the name of Christ. Gang chaplain
Friar Tuck dignified the outlaws, this merry bunch
Whilst there’s hock to sustain plus meats to munch
Lived lustily - true to his habit - always out to lunch.
Rob gave up some, but not too much, made Marian
Keep in regular touch, they exchanged love’s tokens
And such around the bush.. mm perhaps an analogy
One shouldn’t push. Things more innocent then like
Popes, straight as their arrows, may God be praised!
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Old 02-06-2013, 16:26
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I 'ad a good night

But try as I might

There is no escaping

I now feel like shite
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Old 02-06-2013, 16:32
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Wonderful stuff Musty.
Yes, very memorable that one Musty. I suppose that's why people use gliders and do hang gliding, although it's much more limited than the kind you mean.
Thanks Troy and Biz, that's a very early one of mine with slight improvements made last night I'm too scared to fly in planes Biz, once was enough and that was only to Jersey

I do enjoy your humorous takes on history Frank I love the made Marian pun and the wordplay in this, it's funny all the way through
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Old 02-06-2013, 18:35
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Thanks Musty for responses and Biz for reading the US "Indians" one. Frank
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Old 02-06-2013, 22:32
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I believe the government are trying to tell us that they'll do the same Frank. Hmmmm.
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Old 02-06-2013, 23:10
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Thanks Musty for responses and Biz for reading the US "Indians" one. Frank
No worries my friend, I find Robin Hood an intriguing character, though we'll probably never know who he really was. What is it about mystery that's so intensely luring?
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Old 03-06-2013, 12:06
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Credit To John Aubrey

The first modern person to ring
The changes where lost beliefs cling,
As Avebury beckoned
John took Charles the second
To guide him around the great ring.


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Old 03-06-2013, 12:06
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A sneak preview of the shortest piece in the Avebury suite
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Old 03-06-2013, 12:19
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Brilliance

You always used glitter
for every card you made.
It seemed to soothe you.
I’d watch as you’d sit at the kitchen table,
day after day,
your whole world within your reach
– glue card scissors paper –
and you,
spread amongst your mess,
tongue fixed in the corner of your slack mouth,
eyes slowly moving with your thoughts,
trailing dots and loops of glue onto card.
Then, clasping handfuls of glitter,
their silver specks trickling through your brittle porcelain fingers,
your shattered brilliance seeping from your palm,
you’d scatter light.
And then the magic
as you shook all the loose bits free
over table and floor,
to leave invisible smudges transformed
to fragile reflections of light –
and your precious work offered up
with a smile set deep in your eyes.
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Old 03-06-2013, 16:08
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Brilliance
You always used glitter
for every card you made.
Your poetry is so moving and powerful Scottie. I hope you saw my reaction to Fear Of Clowns. This seems to be about a child watching an elderly relative making Christmas cards. Within it I sensed the wonder that was witnessed long ago. Another superbly atmospheric write
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Old 03-06-2013, 22:29
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Credit To John Aubrey

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I have a great deal to learn about Avebury.

Musty's comment made me look again at this Scottie, and question my thought that it was about frail and much loved little girl who had possibly died. Touching and intriguing.
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Old 03-06-2013, 23:13
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Not quite relevant, but has anyone else noticed that Poetry Please on Radio 4 has been more like Prose Please for about a year? Also, there's plenty of plugging, especially from McGough.
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Old 03-06-2013, 23:33
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Brilliance

You always used glitter
for every card you made.
It seemed to soothe you.
I’d watch as you’d sit at the kitchen table,
day after day,
your whole world within your reach
– glue card scissors paper –
and you,
spread amongst your mess,
tongue fixed in the corner of your slack mouth,
eyes slowly moving with your thoughts,
trailing dots and loops of glue onto card.
Then, clasping handfuls of glitter,
their silver specks trickling through your brittle porcelain fingers,
your shattered brilliance seeping from your palm,
you’d scatter light.
And then the magic
as you shook all the loose bits free
over table and floor,
to leave invisible smudges transformed
to fragile reflections of light –
and your precious work offered up
with a smile set deep in your eyes.
Beautiful and thought provoking.
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Old 04-06-2013, 00:52
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Musty's comment made me look again at this Scottie, and question my thought that it was about frail and much loved little girl who had possibly died.
Isn't it funny how some poems get interpreted differently Biz? The limerick above is going to be changed and there's a good page describing John Aubrey on Wikipedia

Not quite relevant, but has anyone else noticed that Poetry Please on Radio 4 has been more like Prose Please for about a year?
I don't listen to it Korky, though I seem to recall Biz saying the same thing once. Modern poetry largely shuns the rhyme, so I'm quite out of step I like some of Roger McGough's material but not enough to buy one of his books.

Beautiful and thought provoking.
Hi Flower
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Old 04-06-2013, 01:23
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Isn't it funny how some poems get interpreted differently Biz? The limerick above is going to be changed and there's a good page describing John Aubrey on Wikipedia


I don't listen to it Korky, though I seem to recall Biz saying the same thing once. Modern poetry largely shuns the rhyme, so I'm quite out of step I like some of Roger McGough's material but not enough to buy one of his books.


Hi Flower
Hi mustard x
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Old 04-06-2013, 01:43
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Great to see some old fms back in as well as some new ones to this thread, like Vosne even.

Absence. ('Blue Sci'?)

I dream I'm fully aware,
but I'm sat in my memory chair.
On my way to a far off place
in the corner of deepest space.

My ship computes my needs.
The distances and speeds
required to get me - where?
I really couldn't care.

They all look the same to me.
Horrifically military.
I'll stop that in a day.
Or I'm not worth my pay.

I won't be going down.
Too much G in ground.
I'll stay above and high
on questions as: "To why?"

My landing craft are made
of impenetrable grade
quantum chromed carbon.
For killers there's no pardon.

Disgusts me, so it does.
It used to be a buzz
to brush away the blinds
and change a trillion minds.

Maybe this will be my last.
This body's ageing fast.
Yeah - like me turn down a trip?
No one else can work my ship.

At last I'm nearly there.
Given time to prepare -
I'll be back before the ends.
Back with you, my friends.
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Old 04-06-2013, 01:53
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Ey oop Flower, the thread's rocking

Absence. ('Blue Sci'?)
On my way to a far off place
in the corner of deepest space.
Excellent, Archiver strikes with another sci-fi corker I didn't get the blue-sci term but I could see the space traveller in the poem - there's a hint that he's a killer who's serving a sentence on a rocket. Either way it was great to visit the depths of space again
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Old 04-06-2013, 02:32
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Ta Musty. "Blue Sci" Sad Sci-Fi? and sounds like 'blue sky' which always featured in the long dreams of pre-light travellers...
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